It’s called projection. Most of the lies are made up with actions that the speaker has done or wants to do.
Fun fact: the first famine of Soviet Union happened equally because of idiot government taking away all seeds, even planting stock; idiot farmers believing rumors that all animals, even draft, will be taken away and butchering them; and bad weather.
It’s only in that 25 year window, really, that pro-slavery southern politicians had any real power in government and when the southern states dominated the US economy. I guess you can “technically” say that that was “prior to the Civil War”, but that’s stretching what those words mean.